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A small idea

PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 11:42 pm
by turbo_skylane
is there any way to have a cessna with a heli blade on the roof and a normal prop on th front so it can take off vertical and fly? without having to model the thing?

Re: A small idea

PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:51 am
by SilverFox441
No. FS doesn't allow for mixed propulsion.

Re: A small idea

PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:53 am
by turbo_skylane
well can i have a rotor on the roof? :'(

Re: A small idea

PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 5:02 am
by microlight
turbo-skylane,

You can have what you like on the roof(!) but it won't affect the way that the plane flies. The shape of the model itself has no effect whatever on the flying characteristics - these are defined in the flight dynamics files that tell FS what the plane looks like rather than the model. So you could design a model of a large house brick, but if you used the default 737 dynamics, then it would fly like the default 737.

(Which some might say flies like a house brick anyway!)

;)

Re: A small idea

PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 7:20 pm
by Moach
this bother me too, i wish FS had mixed propulsion...

i need it to make my highspeeder flying car design

plus, thrust vectoring would be neat too 8)

Moach

Re: A small idea

PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:45 am
by microlight
You can simulate thrust vectoring with some careful manipulation of the flap specification in the FD ....

May the force be with you.

;)

Re: A small idea

PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:50 am
by Felix/FFDS
THrust vectoring can be "easily" modelled by modifying the elevator and rudder effects in the flight dynamics.

A Cessna with a rotor on the roof - as in a gyroplane (note - there's an outfit in Utah that has actually taken a Cessna Skymaster and converted it to a gyroplane proof of concept) can also be modelled with the lift characteristics.    The "problem" is modelling the slower rotation of the blades on top....

Re: A small idea

PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:22 pm
by sOuL
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Re: A small idea

PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:24 pm
by turbo_skylane
i aint too good with aircraft files.